Bridgeton's Mayor and City Council

Mayor and City Council

After serving as Council President on Bridgeton City Council in 2009, Mayor Kelly was elected to his first term in May of 2010 with 76% of the vote and assumed office on July 1st of that year as Bridgeton's first African-American Mayor. After an active and highly productive four years, Mayor Kelly hoped to continue as Bridgeton's mayor and ultimately ran unopposed winning a second term four-year term in November 2014.

In the private sector, Mayor Kelly is also the founder and CEO of Gateway Community Action Partnership, Inc; a non-profit social service organization serving over 56,000 low and moderate income residents in the Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem tri-county area. With an annual budget over $40 million, Gateway founded in 1984, employs over 450 people throughout South Jersey.